School is about to break for the holidays and you don’t have a plan! No holiday trip, no classes, and it seems like everybody else is out of town, so no, you can’t send the kids and their friends down to play table football in the basement for hours. And letting them play on the…
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Paper Snowflake Wreath: Easy Winter Craft for Kids
How would you like a ring of snow to grace your front door? Making a paper snowflake wreath is a fun, simple winter craft for kids. It’s a great way to use up all those paper snowflake if (like us) you are addicted to making them! If you use non-Christmas colors, this can be a…
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Diverse Middle Grade Fantasy Books
Does your middle grade reader love fantasy? Magical worlds, fantastic beasts, mythical creatures, bizarre dimensions. This list of diverse middle grade fantasy books will keep them up all night reading! What you will really love about this list is that a number of the fantasy novels draw upon multicultural mythologies. Kids who loved Rick Riordan’s…
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Creative Activity Books to Get You Through the Winter Screen-Free!
Pop Quiz: The weather is icky. You are stuck in the house with the kids. Do you: A. Hide in the bathroom. B. Let them have unlimited time on the iPad. C. Allow their boredom to fester until they stop whining and think of something to do. If you picked A, B or C. Congratulations!…
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Game of the Month: Set Card Game
My family loves simple games that are adaptable for a number of different situations. SET is an easy-to-learn card game that can be played together as a family, or individually as a brain teaser. You can play it as long as you want or play it for just a few minutes as a quick boredom…
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Picture Books about Snow: Celebrate Winter!
Which do you prefer, playing in the snow or reading about snow? Good news! Unless you live in a sun-drenched winter playland, you don’t have to choose. And if you do live in that sunny paradise, you can live vicariously with us snow-bound folks by reading aloud all of these children’s picture books about snow….
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Contemporary Diverse Middle Grade Books
Does your child like contemporary fiction? I see a lot of emphasis placed on great fantasy or historical fiction for kids, but plenty of middle grader readers enjoy a good contemporary fiction novel! It’s for those kids that I curated this list of contemporary diverse middle grade books. I do try to include books with…
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Darling Village Shop Coloring Page Playable Printables
This month I’m calling our coloring pages the Village Shop “Playable Printable!” Catchy name, right? We are super fortunate that children’s book illustrator and author Melanie Hope Greenberg designed four adorable village shops to recreate pretend play scenes from her newly re-released book, Aunt Lilly’s Laundromat. (Note: this post contains affiliate links.) Although, of course,…
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